Occupational Safety and Health / Health and Productivity Management

• Occupational Safety and Health
• Basic Approach & Policy
• Initiative Targets
• Framework for Promoting Health and Safety
• Initiatives

• Health and Productivity Management
• Basic Approach & Policy
• Initiative Targets
• Framework for Promoting Health Management
• Initiatives

Occupational Safety and Health: Basic Approach & Policy

At the Haseko Group, we establish a Group-wide Basic Policy for Safety and Health Management that stipulates a safety and health policy for Group employees each year, execute thoroughgoing initiatives to eliminate occupational accidents and work to create safe and comfortable workplaces on an ongoing basis.
Furthermore, construction sites of Haseko Corporation establish a safety and health policy and specific implementation measures including partner companies under the Safety and Health Management Plan each year. In order to minimize occupational accidents, not to mention reducing fatal and serious accidents/disasters to zero, we treat the elimination of factors that cause human errors as a priority issue in our activities.

• Group Basic Policy for Safety and
  Health Management (Japanese Only)
• Haseko Corporation Construction Sites Safety and Health Management Plan (Japanese Only)

• The Haseko Corporation Safety and Health Management Plan applies to Haseko Corporation’s construction sites and partner companies that undertake construction work.

Initiative Targets

• Targets of the Haseko Corporation

For the results, please refer to the ESG data

• Occupational safety and health (Social Performance): ESG Data

Framework for Promoting Health and Safety

Although the Haseko Group has not been accredited with Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems ISO 45001 (formerly OHSAS 18001), it has voluntarily set up the Safety and Health Central Committee as a supervisory system in which directors oversee safety matters, chaired by the President and Representative Director of Haseko Corporation to administer the respective Safety and Health Committees. Monthly reports on trends in the number of accidents at construction sites are submitted to the Board of Directors of Haseko Corporation, and in the event of a serious accident, prompt reports on the causes and preventive measures against recurrence are provided, thereby establishing a system of director oversight of safety. In addition, at the Safety and Health Committee of each Group company, the committee and occupational physicians work together on an ongoing basis toward creating safe and comfortable workplaces.
In FY2024, with “Eliminate the occurrence of human error and aim for zero accidents and zero disasters” as our slogan, we executed thoroughgoing initiatives to eliminate occupational accidents at each business site, and committee members for safety and health promotion of each company continuously played a central role in creating a safe and comfortable workplace environment.
For elimination of occupational accidents, we conducted activities by setting the frequency rate of occupational accidents at 0.60 or less and the severity rate of occupational accidents at 0.01 or less as target figures for accidents^* at construction sites. For the creation of a safe and comfortable workplace environment, we further promoted non-working days together with workers in order to rectify long hours of work as part of Workstyle Reform at construction sites. We also made Group-wide efforts in this area at the organization level in collaboration with MOSt Activities.
At meetings of the “Safety and Health Central Committee,” the President and Representative Director of Haseko Corporation, who chairs the committee, and the committee members, comprising the officers in charge of each department and the presidents of each Group company, as well as the representatives of the labor union of the Haseko Group, participate in deliberations and discussions regarding safety and health. At the Safety and Health Committees of Group companies, members nominated by the labor union of the Haseko Group and those who represent a majority of the employees.

• Target for occupational accidents resulting in four or more days of absence from work at Haseko Corporation

Haseko Group’s framework for promoting occupational health and safety

Initiatives

Activities to raise safety awareness

To eliminate occupational accidents, it is essential that each employee remain aware of safety and act accordingly in their daily work.
In addition to proactively using posters and bulletin boards to raise awareness, we conduct regular risk assessments through regular safety patrols at construction sites where Haseko Group projects are underway, thereby strengthening our safety management practices.
With regard to safety and health education for our own employees, Haseko Corporation provides mandatory annual training as part of practical, year-based and position-based programs for young to mid-level employees in the construction divisions. These programs cover fundamental matters such as safety- and health-related laws and regulations, key management points for each type of construction work, and accident case studies. In FY2024, a total of 972 employees participated in these training programs.
In addition, we provide safety and health education for cooperating companies that engage in construction work with us as partners. This includes training for foremen and personnel responsible for safety and health.
Furthermore, as part of hands-on training for cooperating companies, we introduced “Experiential Safety VR Training” using virtual reality (VR) equipment in December 2021. By allowing participants to simulate occupational accidents in realistic VR environments, we aim to further enhance safety awareness.

Ensuring safety on construction sites

Before beginning work on new construction projects, Haseko Corporation holds meetings of the Construction Plan Examination Committee aimed at ensuring appropriate and smooth construction. In addition to the Construction Dept. and site foreman responsible for managing the construction site, the Safety Management Dept., the Technical Support Dept., and the Environmental Systems Dept. also participate in committee meetings. They examine the various risks associated with each project and provide guidance and advice to the Construction Dept. and site foreman. Likewise, in terms of safety management, we evaluate risk based on the unique circumstances of each project and implement suitable countermeasures to ensure safe construction work.
After construction work commences, we conduct Worksite Safety and Health Patrols, where employees in the Safety Management Dept. visit all construction sites. Employees carrying out these patrols inspect the status of each site’s safety and health management, the completeness of relevant documentation, etc. based on a checklist, and provide necessary guidance on improvements. The results of these inspections are shared with the Construction Dept. responsposteible for managing the construction site and the officer in charge of the construction divisions. The Internal Auditing Department also audits each form of management implemented by the Safety Management Dept. through its internal audits.
The scope of audits by the Internal Auditing Dept. is not limited to construction sites and includes the status of management related to industrial safety and health, such as audits of the status of working hours management across all divisions, including Group companies.

Status of occupational accidents and initiatives aimed at preventing recurrence

In FY2024, there were 14 occupational accidents resulting in one or more days of lost work time. The main causes were getting caught in equipment (five), cuts and abrasions (two), falls (two), contact with high-temperature or low-temperature items (two), collisions (two), and contact with hazardous substances (one). The accidents resulted from factors such as heatstroke from working in scorching heat, workers’ unsafe actions or lack of hazard awareness, and deviation from work procedures.
When an occupational accident occurs, the Construction Department and the Safety Management Department in the Construction divisions lead an effort to promptly share information, investigate the cause, and propose recurrence prevention measures. We strive to prevent recurrence by disseminating this information horizontally to all construction sites and group companies, as well as to our cooperating companies through cooperating company organizations such as the Safety Cooperation Association and the Ken-ei-kai. As an example of recurrence prevention measures, since accidents caused by heavy machinery and slinging operations often become more severe, we have strengthened education for heavy machinery operators and slinging operators.
In FY2025, we will continue working to achieve our goal of zero accidents and disasters throughout the entire construction period, with a focus on prevention of falls, prevention of accidents from flying or falling objects, prevention of accidents from unsafe behavior, and employee and worker education.
There was also one fatal accident in FY2024. The accident was caused by heatstroke and resulted in the death of a cooperating company’s employee.
We took this accident seriously and revised the existing Heatstroke Prevention Rules to comply with legal and regulatory amendments. In addition to strictly reinforcing the management of work hours and rest frequency based on the WBGT (heat index), we further enhanced heatstroke prevention measures, by creating a checklist as a means to increase the frequency of health checks, etc., in order to particularly ensure that changes in workers’ health conditions can be detected at an early stage. Furthermore, we will work with cooperating companies to assess the risk of severe illness in individuals with pre-existing conditions, the elderly, and others at risk of sudden deterioration in health due to heat exposure, and provide them with individualized support. In addition, we increased the use of the heatstroke prevention watches (made by Smartfit and Kurabo) introduced in FY2023, installed sunshade equipment on the uppermost part of building frames, and began a “drink 1.5 liters of water a day” campaign through the Construction divisions to instill the importance of proper hydration. Through these initiatives, we will strive to prevent similar accidents from occurring again.

Frequency rate: This is the total number of deaths and injuries due to industrial accidents per million cumulative actual hours worked, representing the frequency at which accidents occur
Severity rate: This is the total number of workdays lost per thousand cumulative actual hours worked, representing the degree of seriousness of accidents

• The figures are the results of Haseko Corporation’s construction sites on a non-consolidated basis (calculated including the employees of partner companies).
• Average results for all industries and the general construction industry for the frequency rate and severity rate are shown below.

Health and Productivity Management: Basic Approach & Policy

Since 2008, the Haseko Group has been providing support to its officers and employees for better physical and mental health by promoting Health HASEKO Genki PLAN under the slogan "No success without healthy officers and employees."
To describe its passion for and approach to health at the Group level, we released "Haseko Group’s Declaration of Health" in September 2017 and thereby presented our corporate policy for health to people inside and outside the Group.

Initiative Targets

◎: KPIs in the HASEKO Evolution Plan medium-term business plan

Metrics	Targets
Percentage of employees undergoing health checks	100%
Percentage of employees taking stress checks	100%
◎Percentage of persons eligible for specific health guidance	15% or less (FY2030)
Implementation rate of the specific health guidance	55%
Certification under the Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program	White 500 certification acquired

For the results, please refer to the ESG data

• Health and productivity management (Social Performance): ESG Data

Framework for Promoting Health Management

In accordance with Haseko Group’s Declaration of Health, we established the Haseko Group Health Management Promotion Committee in FY2018. The Committee is chaired by the President of Haseko Corporation, its members are the respective officers in charge of departments of Haseko Corporation, the respective presidents of Group companies, industrial doctors, labor unions, and its secretariat consists of the Personnel Dept., the Safety Management Dept., the Health Promotion Office of Haseko Well Center, and the health insurance society. The Committee makes decisions on company-wide policies, targets, plans and progress related to the maintenance and promotion of employees’ health and shares related information.

Health management strategy

Under the Haseko Group’s Declaration of Health, with the aim of becoming a Group where all employees can stay healthy both mentally and physically and where each and every one can work with more vitality, we formulated the Haseko Group Health Management Strategy Map visualizing the relationship between the management issues to be solved and the investments in health (health promotion measures) required.

• Haseko Group Health Management Strategy Map (Japanese Only)
• Employees’ Health Status (Metrics) (Japanese Only)

Initiatives

Physical health

HASEKO CLINIC, an in-house medical office that serves as the health management and disease prevention center for Group employees, plays a pivotal role in our efforts for the early detection of diseases through medical checkups and outpatient treatment.
The CLINIC not only conducts periodic medical checkups on all employees but also holds health seminars (e.g., improvement of diabetes, smoking cessation) and gives advice for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases, in an effort enhance their health. Under the scheme for raising employees’ awareness of good health, certain employees are offered PET-CT scanning, while female employees are entitled to comprehensive women-only medical examinations.

Mental health

We have a structure in place to provide care to employees to maintain their mental health ranging from counseling to reinstatement assistance, including stress checks, as well as a structure to give support to employees in the event of the onset of mental illness.
Specific services available are: "self-care," which involves counselling and telephone consultation by a professional body outside the Group; "line care," which is a periodic training session held for managers to educate them and raise their awareness for the prevention of mental illnesses among their subordinates; and "reinstatement assistance program," in which a support team including an industrial doctor and the personnel division provides employees with full support at the Company level to return to work.

Refreshing

The Haseko Group believes that it is important for employees to have opportunities to expand their horizons in terms of hobbies and mates and opportunities to refresh themselves, in order to maintain their physical and mental health. For this reason, we not only directly operate a recuperation facility but also introduce recuperation facilities and resort condominiums to employees and encourage employees to utilize them.
Furthermore, Haseko Club and Everyone's Event, which are open to employees of the Haseko Group, provide the employees with opportunities to refresh themselves through physical exercise and cultural activities.

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